Mortensen also added that while Hong Kong was not necessarily at the forefront of cutting edge consumer apps compared to Korea, Japan and Taiwan, mobile banking and education were areas where Hong Kong was leading the way in the region.

Hong Kong Internet Society chairman Charles Mok commented that these surveys reaffirm Hong Kong's leadership position in mobile user penetration and actual usage adoption in China and globally. "What we need to contemplate now as an industry is how to elevate our application industry to a higher level," said Mok, "expanding from local to regional, developing from marketing-focused apps to develop a higher-valued industry chain that will enable us to build companies that will be world-class mobile technology developers.

"That is our opportunity and our challenge," he added.